The Great Old Ones is a band from Bordeaux, France and they are about to release their second album Tekeli-Li. In case you don't know them, you can discover their new album today because it is streaming in full as of now at this location. While the official release is set for April 16th via Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions, you can enjoy it now. How do you rate the new album from the atmospheric black metallers?

Tekeli-Li is based on H.P. Lovecraft's book At The Mountains Of Madness.

Well.. They brought the cheese for sure. Everything from their band name to the names of their songs. I am not sure if they deliberately do that because they're French or what, but they are certainly full of cheese. The songs themselves well. They're uh... Okay... I suppose... I'm not a fan of it by any means whatsoever. Doesn't really resonate well with my vision of black metal as whole. I understand it is supposed to be atmospheric and all, but this just sounds sloppy in many ways. Particularly instrumentally. Again, I get it because of the whole "black metal" aspect but there is a complete lack of execution that goes along with this particular band that is rather unpleasant. The music composition is about as loose as a cheap prostitute giving birth.

Well.. They brought the cheese for sure. Everything from their band name to the names of their songs. I am not sure if they deliberately do that because they're French or what, but they are certainly full of cheese. The songs themselves well. They're uh... Okay... I suppose... I'm not a fan of it by any means whatsoever. Doesn't really resonate well with my vision of black metal as whole. I understand it is supposed to be atmospheric and all, but this just sounds sloppy in many ways. Particularly instrumentally. Again, I get it because of the whole "black metal" aspect but there is a complete lack of execution that goes along with this particular band that is rather unpleasant. The music composition is about as loose as a cheap prostitute giving birth.

Curious to know what exactly are your visions of black metal?

Part way through this now and seems like they're really living up to their potential. Great, dense soundscape of dissonance and harmony intertwining. Anything but sloppy, for sure, from my perspective.